Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-12
THE NATION.

20.
Twenty-Five buildings in Bowling Green
Ohio, were destroyed by fire on the 4th
inst
The Oklahoma boomers are again max.
ing preparations TO invade the promised
land
LIST inst, resulted i'm a victory for the demo
Gratis.
Later election returns from Texas make
the total majority against prohibition
7S, 600.
An apparently inexhaustible supply Of
natural gas has been discovered near
Albert Lea, MINI.
David Clty, Neb., suffers loss of over
$4,000 by a storm which swept over that
place few duys ago
The United States government has sub
mitted new proposals for settlement of
the fl heries question.
1t is stated that the negotiations for the
settlement of the Canadian fisheries dis
pute are progressing finely.
McGargle, the escaped Chicago boodler,
has been seen in every town in Canada
from Sarnia 20 the sea shore.
Virginia democrats, in convention as
sembled, adopted resolutions heartily Ell
dorsing President Cleveland
Eleazer Root founder and first presiden.
of Carroll college at Madison, Wis, ha
just died at Jacksonville, Fla.
IL is rumored that the Standard Oil
company contemplate boring for natural
gas in the vicinity of Chicago
The coinage at the various minis during
July was sl,960000, of which s6O00O0
was in standard silver dollars
Now stated that band of Mexican out
laws are responsible for the recent depre-
dations charged to the Apaches.
Mrs. Lille Sch!immer, a 16-year-old wife
was murdered in cold blood by her youth
full husband Joseph, in Jersey City.
VIM. /. Forward, clerk of the county
court at Palatka, Fla, has been suspended
10y the governor for embezzement.
a judge of the Illinois supreme court is
quoted as saying that the Chicago an
arch>tS Will not he granted a new trial.
George Whetstein OF Bridgeport, Conn
aged 20, in "A tit of jealousy shot and killed
It's wife, agel 20. and then killed himself
George Gould denies the story that hi,
father i, interested in an American Chi
nese bank with "A capital stock OF 500, 900,
900.
Four workmen in the tunnel now being
built near Ellensburg, W. r., by the North
ern Pacific road, were killed by falling
rock.
The comptroller of the currency has
called upon the national banks for a re
port of their condition at the close of
business Aug. /.
At the recent elections in Utah the
Gentiles elected more members of the
territorial legislature than they have
ever been able to DO before.
One hundred Salt Lake Mormons have
petitioned the Canadian government for
homestead lands in the vicinity OF Medi-
cine Hat, northwest territory.
Amos Reed at one time acting governor
of Utah, died uddenly the other morning
at his home near Brancnville, Prince
Georges county, Nd, aged 81
The total United States deUt is sl.6sl,-
4-G,I3l reduction during July SSH s94
available for reduction, $2Gl. AZ. 1,3. total
cash in the treasury : i55,334,36l.
Serious charges have been preferred
ogainst the New York immigration com
missioner The III alter is Icing investi
lated by the treasury department.
Leroy H. Brown, late state superintend
ent of public instruction Of Ohio, has been
elected president Of the state university
OF Nevada at a salary of $500 "A year
Miss Mary button, a well known edu
Gator died in New Haven, Conn. recently
aged - years. She was principal of Grove
Hall school for young ladies from S25 To
1873
Or. st. John the owner of the schooner
Blake, and who is believed 10 have per
sonally assisted boodler McCarigle TO es.
cape, has been arrested and released on
$4,000 bale
An accident occurred on tue Newport
News AMI Kansas Valley railroad near
Greenwood, Va the other day. one man
was instantly killed, and a dozen others
seriously injured
The extensive cracker bakeries and ad
joining business places in Baltimore were
burned the other afternoon, causing a loss
of $500 OO. One fireman was killed and
another seriously injured.
The two children of Mrs. Murray Wilson
we're instantly killed and Mrs Wilson her
self seriouly injured by being run over by
Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul engine
at Wood street crossing in Chicago.
Mentor Smith, lC-year old boy of Full
ton, Mo, shot and instantly killed his
father. On the stand the boy said his
father did not treat him we'll and fire.
quently whipped him in a cruel manner.
The trial of the Chica. o booders result.
ed in the conviction of eleven OF the
boodlers Seven of the COW ted rascals
get two years each in Joliet, and the re-
naming four escape with a fine of $1,000
each.
Il. +. Haydens farm in Trigg county,
KY, is reported to have sunk four or five
feet below its former level at the time of
the earthquake the other morning. The
farm Of 300 acres is now covered with
water.
The brotherhood of locomotive engi-
neers held picnic at Lake Monowa, near
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the other day. One
of the small steamers plying on the lake